Pedro Luján

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
A Pedro Luján is mentioned in 1695 as the son of Juan Luján. He could have been one of the three small children of 1680 mentioned with Juan Luis.

~Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Location 2935

Pedro Luján was the son of Juan Luis Luján [Ruiz Cáceres branch]. He was but a minor in 1680-1681, and hence not included in the Revolt lists; but he returned with the Reconquest, accompanied by his wife, Francisca Martín de Salazar. He was twenty-seven in 1693. As a company captain he took part in an Apache campaign in 1713, and was on the Governor's staff during the Moqui campaign of 1716.

One known child was a daughter, Isabel, who became the wife of Juan Lucero de Godoy.

~Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 9354-9361

• Background Information: ²⁸⁷
Pedro Luján was the son of New Mexico natives Juan Luis Luján and Ysabel López. He joined the El Paso presidial company in 1686/87. He wed Francisca Martín de Salazar in 1691. Their daughter, Ysabel, married Juan Lucero de Godoy in 1703. He took part in the 1713 Apache campaign and the expedition to the Hopi in 1716.

~The Royal Crown Restored, p. 175 footnote 29

Pedro married Francisca Martín de Salazar, daughter of Pedro Martín Serrano y Salazar and Juana Apolonia de Argüello, on 10 Jan 1691 in Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ^248,252,287.^,1463 (Francisca Martín de Salazar was born circ 1675 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁴⁶³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
22 Oct 1689, El Paso del Norte. Pedro Lujan (20), Presidio soldier, son of Captain Juan Luís Lujan and Isabella Lóepz, natives of New Mexico, and Francisca de Salazar (14), daughter of Captain Pedro Martín, deceased, and Juana de Arguello living in El Paso. ~ Witnesses: Don Juan Sverino de Suballe (36), notary; Ayudante Antonio Lucero (39), Francisco Bernal (60), Antonio Jorge (36), Antonio Montaño (38), Francisco Romero de Pedraza (55), all living in El Paso, and Juan Ruiz Caceres, Presidio Soldier. Pair married, 10 Jan 1691, with witnesses Francisco de Apodaca and Juana Martín.